Brian Goulet

@GregAbbott_TX Goddamn I didn't realize somebody could actually be that fucking stupid. You claim somebody renting out the water park for a private event is unconstitutional, so your solution is to introduce a bill that is the definition of religious discrimination?

A city-owned water park in Grand Prairie openly advertised a "MUSLIMS ONLY" event -- closed to the general public. That's religious discrimination. It's unconstitutional. I signed HB 4211 into law -- banning Muslim only no-go zones in Texas. The City must cancel the event and commit to never allowing something like it again by May 11th, or lose $530,000 in state grants. Let this be a lesson to local officials: Facilities funded by ALL taxpayers are not just for a subset of Texans.

@LizzieMarbach don't worry, nobody finds you attractive in the first place, regardless of your hobbies. it's your lack of education and uninformed opinions that are the problem. of course, the hundreds of thousands of people that attend gaming conventions have no problem getting laid.

I know this is unpopular, but it will always be unattractive for a grown man to play video games. Some women might be understanding or pretend like they don’t care that you spend hours playing, but they do. It is extremely unattractive to women and will never not be. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@dannyspud_ @GiveSendGo we all know you're the school bully, get wrecked

My friend started a @GiveSendGo for me after I received thousands of death threats over a video that went viral of me getting punched for holding a sign in support of ICE. Thank you for your support! givesendgo.com/Dannyspud?utm_…

Today, students at my high school in Chicago held an Anti-ICE protest. I was the only one that decided to hold a sign that said ‘I Love ICE’. Instead of allowing me to express my opinion, I was assaulted — Just for standing up for law enforcement. What is happening to America?

@PlayOverwatch yo, i thought ya'll said we would get our earned event points after the hotfix? my event pass is still where it was!

Overwatch’s next big story begins with the Reign of Talon 🤯 🦸 5 New Heroes 💥 Conquest Meta Event 🎮 New Sub-Role Passives ⚔️ Vendetta Coming to Stadium And jump in-game TODAY to play as our newest Damage Hero, Anran, before she officially arrives in Season 1 🔥

remember everybody, firebombing every @Waymo car you see is the morally responsible thing to do. cats > cars.

hey @grok what are tyler robinson's politics

@djclancy999 I have one of the oldest active accounts on twitch. it's over 16 years old. i say that to put this in perspective. you are telling me that I DO NOT COUNT. that my 16 years of use are meaningless, because i spend most of my time lurking. EAT A DICK.

We’ve seen a couple of comments about how our systems detect inauthentic views that aren’t accurate, and so I want to clarify a few things. As I said in my original post, it is important to understand that the technology that we use to detect invalid traffic for ads is separate from what we use for computing ACCV. Viewbots are just one form of invalid traffic. Advertisers are not charged for invalid impressions and creators do not get paid out for any of these impressions. Now you may ask, "why are there two systems"? The reason is that it is harder to detect viewbots in real time. There are a number of different signals that we can use after the fact to detect invalid traffic for advertising that are harder to use for real time detection. As we filter out bots in real time, we need to be sure we are not filtering out real viewers. In fact, the viewbot detection tools we just rolled out went through a lot of edits. In an earlier version, as we dug deeper, we found that the tool was being overly aggressive and not counting valid traffic from various sources. So, we worked to narrow the scope of the change. As we have said, we are rolling out the update gradually right now so that we can monitor it and make sure there are not any issues or mistakes. The second point I want to make is around enforcement actions. Taking enforcement action against viewbots is complicated, as it can be difficult to conclusively determine if an individual streamer is responsible for the viewbots on their channel. Now, I do expect that most of the viewbotting that we see on channels is being driven by the channel owner. However if we were to suspend someone for viewbotting, then the easiest way to attack someone on Twitch and get them suspended would be to send viewbots their way. What we can do – with a lot more precision – is identify the viewbots themselves. That is what we work hard to detect and remove from Twitch. Viewbotting is not unique to Twitch and in fact is a problem across social media. While historically, we've been able to address this problem for advertisers on Twitch, viewbotting was still a challenge for direct sponsorships. We rolled out these updates, in part, to address the direct sponsorships issue. We’re talking openly about the changes we’re making because we think it is an important conversation. I have seen some numbers shared on social media about the number of top creators that are viewbotting and I can tell you that those numbers are just flat out wrong. I don’t know when or how they did their study, but the numbers they shared do not reflect what we see on the service. This is an ongoing challenge for the broader social media industry, and we are focused on building solutions and improving our detection tools, as we did this week.

As highlighted in this recent Twitch Support tweet, we just updated some of the code that we use to detect and eliminate viewbots. I wanted to quickly follow up on a few key points regarding the recent update to our viewbot detection. First, I want to be very clear that we always try to detect and eliminate viewbots. However, doing this in a manner that does not eliminate real viewers can be tricky. While I know for some of you it has been frustrating, we wanted to take our time to make sure we were not inadvertently filtering out real users. Second, I wanted to highlight that bots come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes streamers may be actively working with third parties to inflate their numbers. In other cases, the bots may be used to harass streamers. We don’t want either type, because Average Concurrent Viewers (ACCV) is intended to be a measure of the people that are watching the streamer at any given point in time. As is always the case, detecting viewbots is a bit of a cat and mouse game as third parties work to avoid our detection. We will continue monitoring and make updates over time to improve our viewbot detection system.

@MacmillanAudio hey, wanted to let you know there's a glitch in a new audible release. Installment Immortality, by Seanan Mcguire. ch 12, 4 minutes in, it sounds like 2 tracks overlapping for a few seconds.

@AP4Liberty this is quite literally what you voted for. have fun owning the libs.

Being on Team Trump doesn’t mean clapping for bad ideas. These tariffs are taxes, and they’re hurting working Americans. Support the man. Oppose the policy.

@tipsformenx Bro, we get it, your daddy's rich and you've never worked a day in your life, now go back to bed, you psycho

@Silverbell4you2 @stacycay you offering to pay?

@stacycay Feel free to leave!

If you hate Trump, you’re one of my best friends. I don’t care anymore. I’m looking for a whole roster of haters. We gotta do something about this guy

@JohnBasham @POTUS @SenTedCruz Oh no! It's the consequences of your actions! Ooooh! Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers.

@elonmusk you mean like when billionaires buy up news and social media outlets, therefore controlling the sources of news?

@KemiBadenoch it's only appropriate that i reply to your july 4th post to tell you to SHUT UP. seriously, how stupid do you have to be to pick a fight with david?

Lots of questions on doorstep today about missing postal ballots in North West Essex and all the shenanigans this might entail. “How could this happen!?” they ask. Well… it’s an interesting parallel given the polls yesterday…..(1/4) 👇

Last weekend to enter for a Steam Deck signed by Tetsuya Nomura. Enter the #KHonSteam sweepstakes: KHonSteam.com

@WilliamShatner oh that's fucked up, on so many levels i'd have to take a turbolift to visit them all

This is one of Gene’s secretary’s signature photos. Unfortunately I don’t have penmanship that fancy. 🤷🏼‍♂️ My daughters joke that my William looks like Lillian.

@kimmeekarma @Aesirblood @AnneDyari @ReallyQueenE @sylphialon

I NEED YOUR HELP! Share some of your FAVORITE WOMEN STREAMERS! Women of all kind! Starting a YouTube Series later this year and I would LOVE help finding some great women streamers 💙 (Thank you in advance 😁)

@jk_rowling you wouldn't know women's rights if they slapped you in the face with a book. but then again, there's a lot of rights you don't understand. like your pro slavery stance in your books.

Protecting women's rights includes accurately sexing those advocating for the removal of those rights. The gentleman in question wants males included in women's sport and has sent me a lot of abuse. 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four' - George Orwell

@mu2myoc If you can't pay me for 90 minutes of work, your company is circling the crapper anyways.

@jk_rowling no, we so those people and thought "hey, those fucks like to torment people like me, they're obviously the bad guys, this author obviously supports people who are discriminated against!" turns out you're just a fucking bigot

So you saw masked men threatening opponents with violence and death, claiming oppression while trampling the rights of others, depicting non-believers as tyrants, traitors and vermin and thought ‘if those books taught me anything, it’s that people like this are the good guys.’